Connected Vehicle and Mobile Computing in Transportation

Dear Colleagues,

Mobile internet coupled with Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the implementation of electric and autonomous vehicles are creating disruptive innovations in the transportation sector.

Mobile devices are at the core of most new Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS).

Mobile internet allows a series of groundbreaking services ("disruptive innovations") which have also created new markets. Its application is growing at a rapid pace, effectively tying the Web 2.0 with smartphones and creating a type of services that use mobility and satellite data and that, at the same time, are of easy, immediate, and ubiquitous use.

Some of the main forces that drive the deployment of such applications are the spread of mobile internet, the use of satellite data, social networks, the creation of user-generated content, and the new generation of connected and autonomous vehicles.

This Special Issue aims to aggregate papers on state-of-the-art techniques addressing mobile systems and applications for traffic management and safety, smart vehicles, and smart roads.

We invite the submission of original research work that is relevant to the transportation sector: any research on mobile systems that can be applied in transport modeling and control and planning and operation, as well as describing innovative solutions.

The following list suggests possible but not exclusive topics:

TRAFFIC MODELING AND CONTROL

• Mobile systems for traffic control and management
• Mobile systems as a source of information for traffic flow modeling
• Mobile systems and vehicle routing and route planning
• Mobile systems and road and modal choice
• Mobile systems applied to traffic system optimization and travel behavior
• Mobile systems applied to energy consumption and emission modeling
• Mobile systems applied to travel time reliability and wider economic benefits
• Mobile systems applied to city logistics

PLANNING AND OPERATION

• Mobile systems applied to urban public transport planning and operation
• Mobile systems applied to transportation planning and traffic engineering
• Mobile systems applied to road safety
• Mobile systems applied to traveler information systems and multi-modal transportation
• Mobile systems in automatic data collection methods and survey applications

INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS

• Mobile systems and autonomous vehicle system applications
• Mobile systems and safety aspects of autonomous driving
• Mobile systems in advanced vehicular communication technologies and cooperative ITS
• Mobile systems in shared mobility
• Mobile systems in urban mobility
• Mobile systems and big data in traffic systems
• Mobile systems in smart cities

Papers are published upon acceptance, regardless of the Special Issue publication date.

Dr. Vincenzo Pasquale Giofrè
Prof. Dr. Vittorio Astarita
Guest Editors

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• ITS 
• Connected vehicles 
• Route planning 
• Traffic management